A 3rd chapter within the well-liked coming-of-age comedy franchise The Princess Diaries is within the works at Walt Disney Pictures. Aadrita Mukerji, identified for her work on TV reveals comparable to Supergirl and Reacher, is writing a script for a brand new installment.
Sources informed leisure web site The Hollywood Reporter, the brand new venture is the continuation of the Anne Hathaway-led movie sequence relatively than a reboot. Hathaway’s casting is but to be confirmed. In the previous, the Oscar winner publicly said she would return to the world of Genovia ought to the potential threequel transfer ahead past the script stage.
The first a part of The Princess Diaries, which was launched in 2001, starred Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis, an American teenager who at some point learns she is inheritor to the throne of the fictional European kingdom of Genovia. It additionally starred veteran star Julie Andrews as Clarisse Renaldi, Mia’s grandmother and Queen regent of Genovia.
Loosely based mostly on Meg Cabot’s novel, the movie turned a field workplace hit, incomes USD 165.3 million globally. Hathaway and Andrews reprised their roles for 2004’s Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, which raised USD 134.7 million globally. Late filmmaker Garry Marshall directed each installments.
Debra Martin Chase, the producer behind the primary two Princess Diaries movies, can also be backing the upcoming half. Melissa Stack, identified for the Cameron Diaz-starrer comedy The Other Woman, is connected as govt producer on the film.